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Lawmaker: Pyongyang ready for talks

North Korea could rejoin six-nation talks on its nuclear weapons programs within weeks, a U.S. congressional delegation said Friday after a trip to the communist state.

"Our honest impression is that the DPRK is ready to rejoin the six-party process," Rep. Curt Weldon (R-Pa.), said in Seoul, using the North's official name, Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

Weldon led a bipartisan delegation that held talks in Pyongyang with North Korea's No. 2 leader, Kim Yong Nam, among other top officials.

The United States, North and South Korea, China, Japan and Russia have struggled to arrange new talks aimed at persuading the North to abandon its nuclear weapons programs. The three previous rounds made no breakthroughs.